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Quotes by Dramatist

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell,

"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."

"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."


"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."

"More of your conversation would infect my brain."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."

"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."

"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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